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PostSubject: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeThu 3 Feb - 22:27
As many of you are aware I have been monitoring Adder Vipera berus sites in my area for 30+ years and have photographed many as well as siting back and appreciating the beauty of these little vipers.

Our local male Vipera berus are normally active from late February depending upon local climatic conditions.

The early part of this winter was extremely harsh for northern England with the upland areas where the snake are located being deep in snow from later November 2010 through until it finally melted in mid January 2011.

Temperatures were more typical of mainland Europe down to -17c at one stage.

Despite this I decided to start looking for early males shortly after the snow melted and finally today found two males one which I managed to photograph.

The air temperature was 6c and ground was 14c, it was very windy with quite a bit of wind chill. The first three sites were exposed to the wind and nothing there.

However I moved to another site which has a sheltered hiberrnacula and had success there.

This is a full two weeks earlier than I have every seen one on an upland heath site and perhaps 4-5 weeks earlier than last year.

Despite the cold ( I laser temperature checked his body and it was reading 15c) he was active and moving around trying to get a nice basking position.

At this time of year I avoid any disturbance preferring to stand well back with my compact camera and leave him alone.

These long northern European winters get you down and then you go and find your first berus of the year and the gloom is replaced with a warm glow and a deep feeling of happiness that an old friend has made it through the worst part of the winter.

Spring for us is just around the corner.

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I feel so lucky to be able to share time in the presence of these great little animals


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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeThu 3 Feb - 22:42
Hello Graeme,

thank you so much for warming up my heart,

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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeThu 3 Feb - 22:44
Great Graeme !!!
It's just early to find them at this season !!!!
Good work !
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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeFri 4 Feb - 0:06
Very interesting!
Thank you for the geat info. and the nice picture.

Regards Ambros
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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeFri 4 Feb - 1:48
Great!.....and of course Im very jelous now ;-)
We are still deep frozen here...
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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeFri 4 Feb - 5:04
A very nice found Graeme in this early time, congratulation to this found !
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PostSubject: Re: Vipera berus 2001 England   Vipera berus 2001 England Icon_minitimeFri 4 Feb - 6:52
Incredible. I've been monitoring the adder in some sites for 2 years now and I'm still hoping to see my first one of 2011.

You got my hopes up!

Thanks!

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